News: Expansion Bid News - catch all thread

I hope you're right dude and IF the men's team starts in April we'll find out.

However I remember reading about the United/Freedom doubleheaders and the Freedom fans wrote how many fans didn't stay for the Freedom game and the attendance at the United game was a lot higher.

Hopefully the attendances will be closer in St.Louis since the Athleica has a one year head start and already built a following here.

 

Every other current WPS team shares a market with an MLS team, so it shouldn't be much of an issue.

 

But I'm pretty sure St.Louis is the smallest market in all of WPS so those other cities are drawing from larger populations and still some of them struggled at the gate.

But the difference in population isn't THAT great so it shouldn't really be much of a problem or any problem or maybe even an increase like Sport Billy says.

 

What if anything do you make of this?

 

i hope slay actually helps out with this. wouldnt a stadium on the cluster-******** that is the 22nd street interchange be amazing? he could make that happen!

 

Wow.... sounds like he could be seriously considering putting money to a soccer park. Unfortunately not many people have responded to it yet.... I bet the more responses he gets, the more likely something would happen.

 

Why is Mayor Slay asking about an outdoor soccer park 5 years from now?? We already have an outdoor soccer park.

If he is interested in a NEW outdoor soccer park then he would phrase it somewhat differently like "How about opening up a new soccer park in 5 years at a different location with greater capacity and a more professional appearance?"

 

"We" do, out in Fenton. St. Louis City, of which Slay is the mayor, does not.

 

I know that but you would think it would be phrased more appropriately if he was referring to a brand new soccer park. Also, Slay might not even be mayor in 5 years anyway.

 

I dunno, I thought it was pretty obvious he was referring to a new park. Why would he ask about a location if he was referring to an already existing park?

 

It sounds like a question someone would ask if they didn't know we already have an outdoor soccer park.

It should've been more like "I'd like to know where you think we could build a outdoor soccer park in the CITY".

Without the specific geographic reference it could easily sound like a question from someone who didn't know we already have a soccer park.

I've heard mayor Slay talk about putting a soccer stadium in the city in the past and he used the word city and stated how it wasn't possible at the time.

 

No, it doesn't. He doesn't need to tack on "in the city" at the end because his position implies it. Not including it doesn't mean it's a blanket statement for the entire area and thus ignorant about an already existing area stadium; there's absolutely no reason why he would be asking (or even care) about facilities/construction outside of the city proper. If he was something other than the mayor, like a contractor or big-$ investor, then it might be a bit more ambiguous. But that's not the case here.

 

Not at all dude. You don't know the history of St.Louis. Mayor Scheomel commented about the Big Red's attempt to build in a new stadium in other parts of town like Earth City and mayors comment about the county and other parts of the region!

In the past I've HEARD Mayor Slay talk about building a soccer stadium in St.Louis and he always prefaces with "in the the city" because it's a very tough situation to build yet another stadium in the city. He's also referenced other areas in the region many times!

 

Are we assuming that by "soccer park" he means a stadium big enough for a pro team? Because to me, the term means a place with a bunch of fields that can be used to host youth tournaments and such. If it's just one big stadium is that really a soccer park?

 

That, I don't think we can be sure about. I thought about following up with Slay but I don't live in the city so I figured I'd let one of his actual constituents bother him.

 

What's up with Wynalda mentioning Dave Checketts as a possible investor in St. Louis? He has mentioned the St. Louis market several times over the last couple of weeks and even threw out that the MLS should relocate the Wizards to the St. Louis area. I know that he likes to just throw stuff out there, but there seems to be a running theme here!!

 

Tony Hubert on the Saturday Soccer Report mentioned that this new men's league will play a FIFA schedule which is August to May and I don't see how that would be possible with all the cold/snowy weather cities in the league.

Here is the audio if you want to hear it:

http://stlouissoccerunitedlive.com/saturdaysoccerreport/SSR111409-3.mp3

 

I thought they were starting play in April 2010?

 

But do you think it's even possible to have this men's league play a FIFA schedule from August to May??

How can they play when it's 20 or 30 degrees and more importantly how many people will sit through that kind of cold not to mention any snow or other dangerous precipitation?

 

Heck if I know, but I did chuckle at the phrase "dangerous precipitation".

 

They're not playing August-to-May. It's been rumored, maybe even suggested by some TOA owners, but SLSU's own site says "The new league is slated to start play in April of 2010."

 

The NFL does not play in Feb or March, with the exception of the neutral-site, usually warm-weather Super Bowl. St Louis winter soccer would probably be fine but I doubt Montreal would be as accomodating.